ocrallmypdf

This is a minimal wrapper around the jbarlow83/ocrmypdf container which adds an inotify-based directory watcher and automatically runs OCR processing on all incoming files in the input directory.

Think of this as a simplified version of cmccambridge/ocrmypdf-auto, where ocrallmypdf is using the existing tools incron and task-spooler to achieve a similar effect.

USAGE

Use your container runtime of choice and run:

docker run -d \
  -v /path/to/input:/input \
  -v /path/to/output:/output \
  ghcr.io/ansemjo/ocrallmypdf

Existing files in the input directory are not processed. The processing only triggers on CLOSE_WRITE and MOVED_TO events.

The container can be customized with a number of environment variables:

env	description	default
INPUT	watched input directory inside of the container	/input
OUTPUT	output directory for processed file in the container, be careful not to create an inotify loop by using the same directories!	/output
OCR_OPTIONS	options passed to ocrmypdf command	--clean --deskew --output-type pdfa --skip-text
OCR_LANGUAGE	language used with tesseract (-l flag of ocrmypdf), missing languages will be installed on startup	deu+eng
REMOVE_ORIGINAL	truthy value whether to remove original input files	yes
JOBS	number of concurrent jobs in task spooler, using too many at once may lead to ocr timeouts, since ocrmypdf uses all cores per process by default	1